Posted on 12/30/2007 10:10:33 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
My New Year’s resolution is that you post Fred Thompson articles to News/Activism instead of Bloggers and GOP Club. You are an excellent poster here, but only a fraction of folks get to see your good work when it’s posted outside of News/Activism.
Poorly written and intellectually dishonest with a whif of oak and blackberry notes.
While I agree that Mr. Hughes is presumably a better businessman than columnist, his heart is in the right place. Not everyone can be a William F. Buckley, Jr.
If you insist...LOL
Many posters have their options set up to only see News/Activism posts, so if you can get away with it in News/Activism, then go for it (especially if it’s politics related). The only exception are articles from blogspot and a few others, where FR software forces you to post them to Bloggers.
:O)
I find it interesting that “winning in Iowa” isn’t important and that Fred’s strategy is working. He isn’t ahead in NH or SC either.
What IS the strategy? Come in third fourth or fifth forever and get elected on sympathy. Please, if you want to claim a brilliant strategy, articulate it. Advising people to keep supporting a losing politician is equivalent to recommending betting on the Dolphins to win the Super Bowl.
Fred has to earn support. If he finishes 4th or worse in Iowa, worse in NH and can’t do better than 3rd in SC, he should get out.
Let's play poker some time.
Brilliant.
Lets bet on President Fred now.
I think the author is wrong.
Fred isn’t doing what he needs to be doing to win the nomination. Fred needs a Reagan moment. He needs to prove the pundits wrong, and he can’t do that by acting exactly like the way they say he is. He needs to stop acting like he’s too tired to run, and run already, tell the voters point blank that he’s ready to do what’s necessary to win in November. The campaign does not end after the nominee is chosen. That is when it begins. The primary is an audition for the real thing, and if Fred is the nominee and runs in the general election against the Democrats the way he’s run in the primaries, then we’re toast. This is the main reason of several that Fred has been on a 2 month long nose dive. The other reason is he’s never really made a compelling case for why America needs him as president, not just why conservatives need him as the GOP nominee.
Let's play poker some time.If this was poker, then Fred would have been in the bathroom the whole time while the hand was played. This is no master card player's strategy. This is a guy who threw in his ante then never drew any cards.
I’ve made my choice and I’m sticking with him.
I was worried by the headline, I was thinking it’s too early to do a “retrospective” on Fred Thompson, that’s usually reserved for people who are done, and he’s certainly not done yet.
However, I think people can also “do the right thing” if on the day of their vote, they look at all the candidates and assess what vote makes the most sense to get the most of what they want.
And that might not be to vote for the person they have supported, if their candidate can’t win, and another candidate could win if he got enough support, and would be better than the candidate who would otherwise win.
I have my filter set to see everything posted, so I don’t miss anything. I filter by reading the 1st paragraphs, because it doesn’t take long.
Patience, my FRiends.
An admission I fear many here need to make.
It's amusing how loudly and frequently we condemn the media for pushing prevailing wisdom and "truth" that they just kind of hear about in the press room, and yet we have people strutting around here in type as if they just know Fred is done, it's all over but the cryin, etc...thus doing precisely what the hated media WANT them to do, which is invest the media with incredible powers of persuasion by directing the national debate.
For those condemning Fred's strategy, I'd love to read their reasoning for why the winning strategy worked. Of course, you'll have to tell us who the winner is going to be, AND explain that winning strategy now. But you folks seem to think you have all the answers, so let's have 'em.
BTW, 2ndDV, if you have a ping list put me on it. I find you post 90% of the interesting stuff around here these days.
I think we need to stop comparing everything and everyone to Reagan.
“Comments?”
Yes, 2ndDivisionVet, you’re doing a great job posting all these breaking articles. Thanks for your hard work!
Who exactly is running for President here - the pundits or FDT? Think about it.
A true leader doesn't give a rat's ass what the "experts" think.
I will bump it.
Patience? Patience??
Fred is the hare in the race, taking a nap under the tree as the tortoise crosses the finish line. And you’re sitting here telling me not to worry, he’ll wake up and spring into action any day now. I think it’s already several days too late.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.